Automotive Contracts in England

Automotive
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Automotive in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Automotive over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 346 448
Rank change year-on-year +52 +102 -27
Contract jobs citing Automotive 265 335 356
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.73% 0.70% 0.51%
As % of the General category 1.25% 1.17% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 238 271
10th Percentile £294 £313 £313
25th Percentile £331 £375 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £557 £552
90th Percentile £684 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 28 16
10th Percentile £16.25 £19.26 £21.20
25th Percentile £30.70 £22.16 £26.81
Median hourly rate £47.50 £38.75 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.58% +2.65% -16.11%
75th Percentile £57.50 £52.50 £49.75
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £65.88
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £38.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year +23.38% +1.99% -16.11%

All General Skills
England

Automotive is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,183 28,577 39,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.22% 59.31% 56.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,657 20,071 27,958
10th Percentile £281 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £790 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,773 929 1,300
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £18.09 £14.75
Median hourly rate £30.16 £32.30 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.63% +50.23% -4.10%
75th Percentile £51.91 £61.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.74 £72.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.96% +44.87% -

Automotive
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Automotive as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Automotive in England

Automotive
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automotive in England.

Daily rate trend for Automotive in England

Automotive
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automotive in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automotive in England

Automotive
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automotive in England.

Hourly rate trend for Automotive in England

Automotive
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Automotive in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Automotive in England

Automotive
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automotive within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +5 72 £508 +6.84% 364
West Midlands +17 59 £518 -1.43% 269
South East -39 59 £473 -0.53% 264
London +106 45 £525 +9.95% 105
East of England +35 43 £375 -37.84% 158
North of England +39 29 £575 +27.78% 186
North West +30 20 £588 -5.05% 121
South West -1 14 £400 - 144
East Midlands -4 13 £408 +16.43% 94
North East +17 7 - - 17
Yorkshire +9 2 £265 -37.65% 49
Automotive
UK

Automotive
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.89%) Confluence
3 4 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.75%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
Applications
1 30 (11.32%) Simulink
2 27 (10.19%) Stateflow
3 6 (2.26%) CANalyzer
3 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.26%) Sketch
4 5 (1.89%) InVision
4 5 (1.89%) TargetLink
5 4 (1.51%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.75%) CATIA
7 2 (0.75%) Maya
7 2 (0.75%) NUKE
7 2 (0.75%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.51%) SAP WM
3 2 (0.75%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.38%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.38%) iTrent
4 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.38%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.38%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 14 (5.28%) AWS
2 8 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (2.64%) Azure
4 5 (1.89%) Figma
5 4 (1.51%) OneDrive
5 4 (1.51%) Power Automate
6 3 (1.13%) Adobe Analytics
6 3 (1.13%) GCP
6 3 (1.13%) PaaS
6 3 (1.13%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.13%) Snowflake
7 2 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.75%) GitHub
7 2 (0.75%) SaaS
7 2 (0.75%) Serverless
7 2 (0.75%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.38%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.38%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.38%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.40%) Ethernet
2 5 (1.89%) Firewall
2 5 (1.89%) J1939
3 4 (1.51%) FlexRay
3 4 (1.51%) Internet
4 3 (1.13%) Intranet
4 3 (1.13%) LAN
4 3 (1.13%) RTSP
4 3 (1.13%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.13%) VPN
4 3 (1.13%) WAN
5 2 (0.75%) DHCP
5 2 (0.75%) SSL
5 2 (0.75%) VLAN
5 2 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.38%) HTTP
6 1 (0.38%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.51%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.13%) Power BI
3 2 (0.75%) Data Vault
3 2 (0.75%) Metadata
3 2 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.38%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (0.38%) Looker
4 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.38%) Power Query
4 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (4.15%) JIRA
2 8 (3.02%) Git
3 7 (2.64%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.26%) CANoe
5 5 (1.89%) Subversion
6 3 (1.13%) TestRail
7 2 (0.75%) JMeter
7 2 (0.75%) Selenium
8 1 (0.38%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.38%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
General
1 53 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 43 (16.23%) Social Skills
3 29 (10.94%) Electronics
4 25 (9.43%) Legal
5 20 (7.55%) Aerospace
6 17 (6.42%) Finance
7 16 (6.04%) Retail
8 12 (4.53%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.02%) Marketing
10 7 (2.64%) Advertising
10 7 (2.64%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (1.51%) German Language
11 4 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.51%) Military
12 3 (1.13%) Law
12 3 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.75%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.75%) Games
13 2 (0.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 42 (15.85%) Software Engineer
2 25 (9.43%) Embedded Engineer
3 24 (9.06%) Analyst
4 22 (8.30%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 19 (7.17%) Systems Engineer
6 17 (6.42%) Senior
7 15 (5.66%) Consultant
8 14 (5.28%) Developer
8 14 (5.28%) Project Manager
9 13 (4.91%) Architect
9 13 (4.91%) Lead
10 9 (3.40%) SAP Consultant
10 9 (3.40%) Test Engineer
11 8 (3.02%) Author
11 8 (3.02%) Business Analyst
11 8 (3.02%) Integration Engineer
11 8 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.02%) Technical Author
12 7 (2.64%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (2.64%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.02%) React
2 5 (1.89%) CSS
3 4 (1.51%) AngularJS
3 4 (1.51%) Kafka
3 4 (1.51%) Node.js
4 3 (1.13%) .NET
4 3 (1.13%) .NET Core
4 3 (1.13%) Blazor
4 3 (1.13%) HTML
4 3 (1.13%) Middleware
4 3 (1.13%) OpenGL
4 3 (1.13%) WebRTC
5 2 (0.75%) ATL
5 2 (0.75%) Framer.js
5 2 (0.75%) Redux
5 2 (0.75%) REST
5 2 (0.75%) RESTful
5 2 (0.75%) TensorFlow
5 2 (0.75%) Unreal Engine
5 2 (0.75%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.70%) Algorithms
2 11 (4.15%) Infotainment
3 10 (3.77%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.64%) Life Science
5 6 (2.26%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (1.89%) CAN bus
7 4 (1.51%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.51%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.13%) CUDA
8 3 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.13%) PKI
8 3 (1.13%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.13%) SCADA
9 2 (0.75%) Animation
9 2 (0.75%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.75%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.40%) Linux
1 9 (3.40%) Windows
2 5 (1.89%) Unix
3 3 (1.13%) VMS
4 2 (0.75%) Android
4 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (22.26%) Software Engineering
2 57 (21.51%) Agile
3 37 (13.96%) Validation
4 33 (12.45%) Test Automation
5 31 (11.70%) Project Management
6 26 (9.81%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
7 25 (9.43%) Computer Science
8 24 (9.06%) Verification and Validation
9 19 (7.17%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (6.79%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (5.28%) Customer Service
11 14 (5.28%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (4.15%) Quality Management
13 10 (3.77%) End-to-End Testing
13 10 (3.77%) Product Strategy
13 10 (3.77%) Scrum
13 10 (3.77%) Software Testing
14 9 (3.40%) ITIL
14 9 (3.40%) Use Case
15 8 (3.02%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 30 (11.32%) MATLAB
2 25 (9.43%) C
3 16 (6.04%) Embedded C
4 14 (5.28%) SQL
5 11 (4.15%) C++
6 9 (3.40%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.02%) Java
8 7 (2.64%) Python
9 6 (2.26%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.89%) Embedded C++
11 4 (1.51%) VBA
12 3 (1.13%) C#
12 3 (1.13%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.75%) VB
14 1 (0.38%) ABAP
14 1 (0.38%) Bash
14 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (13.21%) Degree
2 14 (5.28%) Master's Degree
3 5 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.51%) HNC
5 3 (1.13%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.75%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.75%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) CISA
7 1 (0.38%) CISSP
7 1 (0.38%) HND
7 1 (0.38%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.28%) AUTOSAR
2 10 (3.77%) QA
3 6 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.89%) ISO 26262
4 5 (1.89%) MISRA
4 5 (1.89%) MISRA C
5 4 (1.51%) SLA
6 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.75%) GDPR
6 2 (0.75%) GRC
6 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.75%) PMO
7 1 (0.38%) COBIT
7 1 (0.38%) ITGC
System Software
1 7 (2.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (3.77%) Functional Safety
2 2 (0.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.75%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.38%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.38%) Nmap
3 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (10.57%) SAP
2 24 (9.06%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.64%) Informatica
4 6 (2.26%) Apple
5 3 (1.13%) Adobe
5 3 (1.13%) MathWorks
5 3 (1.13%) NVIDIA
6 2 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (0.75%) Google
6 2 (0.75%) IBM
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle
6 2 (0.75%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.75%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.38%) Allen-Bradley
7 1 (0.38%) Cisco
7 1 (0.38%) F5
7 1 (0.38%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.38%) QNX
7 1 (0.38%) Rockwell
7 1 (0.38%) Workday